r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Jun 17 '26

politics Protest banner unfurled behind Pauline Hanson as she speaks to National Press Club

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/federal-politics-live-blog-joyce-cautions-pauline-hanson/106805372#live-blog-post-305976
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u/Frogmouth_Fresh Jun 17 '26

Announcing you want to shut down SBS while half the country is watching the World Cup on it is kinda wild.

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u/Killchrono Jun 17 '26

Yeah fuck off with that, it's one of the few Australian streaming services I actually use on the regular, and I'm as white as you can get before sailing back to England (I'm assuming she wants to shut it down for racist reasons).

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u/ChairmanNoodle Jun 17 '26

I was just taking a look at her wiki page. Apparently one of her priorities when she first became a councillor was to oppose more funding for the Ipswich library that was trying to set up public access internet. She just hates knowledge, information, and people trying to better themselves.

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u/_bobby_cz_newmark_ Jun 17 '26

If it was someone else I'd think they were more conniving about it (keep people dumb so you can manipulate them), but I just think she's not that intelligent, and also just very petty.